Thomas Pennant, in his tour of 1773, refers to the House of Llantysilio as being the seat of Thomas Jones and in 1750 and again in 1792 we find that Thomas Jones of Llantysilio Hall was the Sheriff of Denbighshire. Pennant says that the ‘previous possessors were the Cupers or Cuppers – styled even so early as the time of Henry II the ancient Cuppers of the north’.
Thomas Cupper purchased the estate and built the original Hall at the beginning of the 18th century, and his daughter and sole heiress conveyed it to the Jones family by marriage with Thomas Jones, then of the county of Montgomery. Thomas Jones’ son and grandson, both also called Thomas, continued to own the estate, with the last Thomas Jones dying in 1820 leaving no will.
In 1822 the housekeeper of the vicar of Oswestry dreamt that the will of Thomas Jones had been buried with him. Because of this dream a party of seven or eight people, including a lawyer and a surgeon, broke into the tomb and opened the coffin. Although it would appear that the will was not found.
